Picture gallery of Pierre Ferdinand de Roose

Coques, Gonzales (ca. 1614-1684)

Delen, Dirck van (1604 or 1605-1671)

Ehrenberg, Wilhelm Schubert van (1637-ca.1676) (formerly attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1666

Height:

166.0 cm  (65 3/8 in.)

Width:

189.0 cm  (74 7/16 in.)

Description

Portrays a gallery in a palace, pictures on wall depict musical activity. One female mythological figure plays bass viola da gamba or violoncello; two female bacchantes play bowed necked box lute and a frame harp or lyre; two satyrs play a conical wind instrument and a tambourine or frame drum.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viol [3597]
Wind instruments [3730]
Tambourine [2746]
Horn [4118]

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) v. 2, p. 38, cat. 148, pl. XXXI.

RIdIM record id

447